Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-03

Miss Laura Ball took charge Of The
school in district % on Monday.
w. T. Best, from the south part OF the
county, spent Wednesday in Colby. This
office was favored with a call.
\ Mr. Sisson. who lately purchased A
claim Of Geo C. Prehn. is building fine
sod house on his claim. H proposes to
bring his family to live in Thomas coun-
ty
s. R Wharton, representative Of the
Kansas City Journal, was in our city on
Tuesday, in the interests OF his paper.
The CAT office was favored with pleas
art call.
/ Mr.. Howard Carpenter, on Nov. lst.
took the relns of management of the
Democrat, having purchased the paper
and Office of c. r. Marks. Mr. Carpen-
ter comes among us with his family from
Sheridan Sheridan COUNTY, Kan, and we
are glad to welcome them to Colby, and
trust that he and his family may find it
pleasant and profitable in our city.
A COLLEGE At COLBY.-How does that
strike our citizens? 1t is among the prob
abilities of the future of our fine little
city 1t is proposed by the Methodists
/ of northwestern Kansas TO establish a
! College somewhere in this part of the
state. and Colby can secure the institu-
ton by vigorous effort. Several propo-
sitions in the direction of securing the
! college are being considered. What the
projectors of the enterprise wish is that a
section of land somewhere in the vicini
/ ty of the city be given to the trustees APP
! pointed for the purpose, who will lay
| large portion of it out into residence lots
and sell these to MethodSts and others
throughout the state In this way large
/ fund could he raised to erect college
| building; and carry on the school. This
| plan was put in operation. and the Meth
odist college ut Salina built. The advan
| tages to derived to our own city and
county are iaaumerable in having an in
! stitution of the kind in our midst, and
are so obvious that it is needless to name
/ them By vigorous work we can secure
the college. Let us do so.
Among the lies in circulation, is one
! stating that the treasurer used county
money in Logan county. We emphati
cally deny the base fabrication, and can
easily demonstrate that there is not a
word of truth in the assertion. The
Probate Judge and two assistants, APP
| pointed by the county commissioners,
examine the books IF the county treas
urer at least once in three months. with
/ out notice, find out the amount of funds
! the treasurer should have on hand, and
see if he has it, That committee has
done its work faithfully; haye always
found the money on hand, and the books
in good shape. There is never any large
amount of county money on hand. rs
warrants are presented and paid as fast
as any amount of money accumulates;
and there is seldom more than two or
three hundred dollars on nand to the
credit OF the county. The school money
belonging to the state amounts to more,
but this is also examined by the commit
tee before mentioned. The books OF the
treasurer are always open to examination
to anyone. democrat or republican. and
besides. must agree exactly with the
books of the county clerk, and any short
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once. The whole story is only a cam
paign fraud. and should rebound on the
perpetrators like a boomerang. Again
they charge that the county treasurer
interests are not identified with Thomas
county The fact that he has done as
much as perhaps any citizen of the coun-
ty. toward helping along any public or
church enterprise, resident with
his family, and pays into the
treasury about 800 in taxes. is sufficient
answer to that charge. Thirdly, they in
innate that the treasurer does not spend
enough of his valuable time in the Office.
To that. we answer that during the year
that he has been in office he has not been
absent more than three weeks, and dur
ing that time has always hired, at his
own expense, an efficient deputy. Al
though, when the commissioners were
fixing the salary of the treasurer, Sher-
man county at that time being town
ship, attached to Thomas county, the
statute fixed the salary of county treasu-
rer at the sum of $500. The king bee |
of the democratic party labored earnest |
ly to have it fixed at one-half of that |
amount, on the grounds that the duties |
of his Office would not take one-half of |
his time, and the salary was fixed at
sS50.O0, or $650.00 less thar the statute
prescribed; the treasurer cheerfully &C
ceding thereto. The democrats are hard
to suit. When Hovey loaned some of his
money in Thomas county, they cried out
in holy horror that he was ShyIOck and
money lOaner When he invests some